Bringing Modernity Home: Writings on Popular Design and Material Culture

By Judy Attfield

Bringing Modernity Home offers a retrospective view of the development of popular taste and the beginnings of a new phase in the rise of the consumer society in the post Second World War period. It traces the change to consumer-led design after a time of grim austerity and recovery from the war while the state and production considerations held sway when consumers "couldn't afford taste". The case studies of so-called frivolous items like the cocktail cabinet, the coffee table and the rise of DIY in the working-class homes of the "new towns" gives a flavor of the excitement and thrill they afforded designers, makers and consumers after the harsh deprivations of the war.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719063264
• ISBN13: 9780719063268
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.7"